"my children inheriting my poverty" - "being paid regularly, but my debts still mounting up anyway" - "hard to talk about, but when I did start to talk to others I felt no different from them and I wasn’t embarrassed" - "being undocumented, so for you I don’t exist" - "days without bread are the longest days" - "waking up in bad housing conditions which saps the will to do anything" - "being old and living alone. I am sick. I am afraid of loneliness … I cry a lot but try to look calm and collected when I go out." - "working full-time, but … not earning enough to make a decent living" - "what really wears homeless people out is time. Always waiting, always being on the go…" - "every agency wanting the same papers. And more photocopies every time" - "stealing our future by keeping us out of touch with the knowledge-based society" - "constant pressure. It wears you down. Nobody prepared me for living in such harsh conditions"

2010 European Year assessment and futures actions

Monday 21 February 2011, by European Anti Poverty Network

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the 2010 Coalition of Social NGOs held a joint hearing on 22 November 2010.

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Bilan de l’Année européenne 2010 et actions futures, Comité économique et social et Coalition 2010 des ONG sociales

Le Comité économique et social européen et la Coalition 2010 des ONG Sociales ont tenu une audition conjointe le 22 novembre 2010, dont le rapport de synthèse est maintenant disponible.

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